Harvester-truck



2 Sheets-Sheet 1. BARNES.

HARVESTER TRUCK.

(No Model.)

No. 306,997. Patented 001;. '21, 1884.

2 sheets-sheet 2.

S. M. BARNES.

HARVESTER TRUCK. Y

Patented Oct. 21, 1884.

(No Model.)

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SAMUEL M. BARNES, OF FAIRBURY, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM S. BROOKS AND JAMES Ii. ASHLEY, BOTH OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

HARVESTER-TRUCK.

.GECIFICATION formingV part of Letters Patent No. 306,997, dated October 21, 1884.

Application filed April l, i884. (No model.)

To LH who/1t may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. BARNES, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Fail-bury, in the county of Livingsten and State of Illinois, have invented eertain new and useful Improvements-in Harvester-Trucks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure lis a side elevation of the truck, the dotted lines showing how the harvester is to be loaded thereon; Fig. 2, a plan view on the top ofthe truck-detached from the harvester; and Fig. 3, an end view of the supporting-bar O, showing its attachment to one of the reaches, c, by means of the clip D.

This invention relates to certain improvements in harvestertrucks for use in transporting grain-harvesters endwise from one 2o place to another, which improvements Iwill lfully set forth and explain in the following` specification.

Referring to the drawings, A represents an axle supported by the two traveling wheels B B. A pair of reaches, a a, are pivotally connected to the axle A by means of bolts a. The hounds t, attached to axle A, furnish means for attaching a tongue, T, to the axle to draw the truck. The reaches a a are con- 3o nected at their rear ends by means of the supporting-bar C, which is pivotally connected at l) to one reach and detachably connected to the other by means of the clip D, as shown more particularly in Fig. 3. The crossbar C rests on the top of the two reaches and is of sufficient length to support the entire width of the platform of the harvester. It is smooth and unobstructed on its upper suri'ace, so as to present no obstructions to the 4o harvester or be in the way of loading and unloading. The supporting-bar G is provided with one or more caster-wheels, XV, attached thereto by means oi' lugs P bolted thereto. rIhe stock z of the caster-wheels is attached to said lugs by the bolt e, as shown more par! ticularly in Fig. l. These easterfwheels may be adjusted to any place or position along on said supporting-bar,without changing the position ofthe reaclrbars a or changing their 5o angle of draft, by means of a row of holes in said bar C to change the position of said lugs I), or by any other suitable means. The object of so adjusting the said casters along on said supporting-bar is to place them directly under the greatest weight of the harvester, as 5 5 the position of the weight in harvesters is very different in different makesof machines, and it is absolutely necessary to have the casters directly underthe weight to balance the machine on the truck. It may be desirable 6o to change the position ofthe casters along on the supporting-bar for a variety of other reasons not necessary to enumerate. The supporting-bar C is also provided with hounds t.

for the attachment of a tongue at that end of the truck, so it can be drawn in either direction.

rlheobject of pivoting the supporting-bar C to one of the reaches c at b, as shown in Fig. 2, is so that the said supporting-bar can be 7o swung around out oi' the way in placing the truck under the harvester, as shown by thedotted lines in said figure. After the reachbars a a are properly under the harvester, the supportingbar is swung around, so its oppo- 7 5 site end can be attached to the opposite reachbar a by means of the clipD, as shown. The supporting-bar C has horizontal movement through said clip D, so the reaches a a may be moved and held to or from each other to 8O accommodate them to any harvester. The harvester, however, is intended to rest solely on the supporting-bar O and axle A. The reach-bars c a simply perform the service of connecting the supporting-bar C and axle A, S5 and are not provided with caster-wheels for the reason that when caster-wheels are at vtached to their outer endsthe weight of the harvester on them will give them such a torsional strain as to break them down, which 9o Having thus described my invention, what IO I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows, to wit:

vIn thehzu\festert1'uck described, the Supsuitable means, :1S und 1'01: the purpose sei; 1 )0lting-ba1 C, having she easter Wheel 01' forth. wheels W XV, and means foi` adjusting them SAMUEL M BAPNES thereon, as described, :und adapted to connect 5 the outer ends of the reach-bars a a by being` \Vibnesses:

pi votally secured to one and adj ustahly secured IRA SMLTH, tio The other by means of a clip, D, or other C. F. H. CAImmfuERS. 

